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I was a reporter and columnist for 40 years for a chain of newspapers in the suburbs of Chicago. I'm a military veteran having served in the United States Army Combat Engineers (Cpl. E-4) and a Korean War veteran with an Honorable Discharge from the Armed Forces of the United States of America

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

This video comes from the REALNEWS network and is called "Combat Outpost." It shows the desolate terrain of Afghanistan where President Obama has given the order to send in 17,000 more US troops to Afghanistan. The Russians fought in this same area for 10 years and after 10 years, and thousands of dead Russian soldiers, they had to pullout of Afghanistan with their tail between their legs in bitter defeat.The Afghanistan War is now President Obama's war and he may live to regret this decision to try and defeat the Taliban.Nobody in the past has been able to do it. Not the British. Not the Russians. And now, perhaps, not the Americans.WATCH "COMBAT OUTPOST" VIDEO HERE:http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=3314

This is a very unusual video because it is a propaganda video made by the insurgents in Iraq about the Iraq War. It depicts the American merciless killers and the insurgents as just defending their own country.TURN UP YOUR SOUND.WATCH VIDEO HERE:http://www.youtube.com/v/-yj7ngFSGLg&hl=en&fs=1CLICK ON DIAMOND-SHAPED ARROW TO PLAY THIS VIDEO

Checkout the terrain our troops are canvassing looking for IEDs in Afghanistan. This is the same kind of terrain President Obama just gave the OK for 10,000 more troops to be sent to Afghanistan.Does anyone know why we are in Afghanistan? I don't and I doubt if the troops do either.TURN UP YOUR SOUND.WATCH VIDEO HERE:http://www.youtube.com/v/Sc8V2lKq0dM&hl=en&fs=1CLICK ON DIAMOND-SHAPED ARROW TO PLAY VIDEO

Video shows US troops engaged in a brutal firefight with the Taliban in Afghanistan. One US soldier is show, but fortunately he did not die.TURN UP YOUR SOUND.WATCH VIDEO HERE:http://www.youtube.com/v/jhnPx-0lrU0&hl=en&fs=1CLICK ON DIAMOND-SHAPED ARROW TO PLAY VIDEO

This video shows female military personnel from various branches of the US military as well as female soldiers from NATO nations who are participating in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.WATCH VIDEO HERE:http://www.youtube.com/v/Zy7mfs-JMMo&hl=en&fs=1CLICK ON DIAMOND-SHAPED ARROW TO PLAY VIDEO

Video was taken inside a Baghdad emergency room two years ago. The number of US. soldiers killed in Iraq is now over 4300. One out of every three returning GIs suffers from PTSD and the month of January saw the highest number of suicides amongst soldiers ever reported.WATCH VIDEO HERE:http://www.youtube.com/v/Gk0Vcq146ro&hl=en&fs=1CLICK ON DIAMOND-SHAPED ARROW TO PLAY VIDEO

Be sure to turn up your sound to hear and watch this video of US forces taking out an ammo dump in Iraq. Listen to GIs talk about the mission in graphic language. WATCH VIDEO HERE:http://www.youtube.com/v/QQl-jPyWbxs&hl=en&fs=1CLICK ON DIAMOND-SHAPED ARROW TO PLAY VIDEO

President Obama is about to decide on whether 30,000 more US troops will help in Afghanistan. The answer is "NO." This video shows what US forces are up against in Afghanistan. The firefight in this video is just ONE of scores of firefights US forces are engaged in over in Afghanistan.